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[SecondReality]

Hello,
I would really appriciate if somebody could help me...
This morning, my GM freezed when I wanted to use the intensity button in the image editor.
I had to "force quit" the program.
A little bit later I wanted to start GM again, and all my preferences were set to zero and the menu bar (I don't know what's the name of it exactly) was gone...
Now I'm scared to do something wrong so I can't open my game anymore.
I've had already problems with GameMaker in the past and I reported bugs on gm4mac.yoyogames.com but nobody has answered them...
I really need this to be resolved. I'm very busy with my game and now I can't work anymore on it!

Really really thank you if somebody could help me!


PS I've already restarted my mac, have done Disk Utility and nothing is found and I even reinstalled GM4Mac... But the problem's still there!

Edited by SecondReality, 17 April 2013 - 08:39 PM.

[SecondReality]

PS I've already restarted my mac, have done Disk Utility and nothing is found and I even reinstalled GM4Mac... But the problem's still there!

[Dangerous_Dave]

I have that problem too. It's a bug in GM. If you don't touch the "Intensity" setting, then it's fine.

Remember the first rule on using a computer: Save, save, save!

[1 Shogun]

Same issue here. It's best to use a separate image editor and then import it to GM. And, if you have an image that you've created via GM sprite editor you don't want to lose then export it, edit, then import. If you don't know of any good free editors, "Paintbrush" is good, "Pencil" (though technically an animation app) is very easy to use and export images, and if you use MacPorts or have Linux, "MyPaint" is pretty cool. A lot of people like GIMP, but I'm not a very big fan of it. Sorry about your bug, and thanks for posting in the Report Bugs topic.

P.S.

If you are getting your sprites from a different source, just use "Preview" to change the saturation and brightness. Or, use code in the Draw Event instead.

Edited by 1 Shogun, 06 February 2012 - 08:55 AM.

[SecondReality]

Yeah, now I know that I can't use the intensity button, but I've still another problem.
The menu bar above is gone! Is there nothing I can do?

[Dangerous_Dave]

Which menu bar?

[SecondReality]

The menu bar (or maybe it's called the title bar) with the title: "Game Maker for Mac OS X Pro: "your game" "
That's gone!
You can see a screenshot via the link in my first post, then jou will see what's missing.

And another problem: all my preferences are set to zero!
When I try to change my preferences, I get this message:
"Failed to set data for "SoundDir".
Press OK to ignore and risk data corruption.
Press Cancel to kill the program."
There's definitly something wrong...

Edited by funnysoft, 07 February 2012 - 06:36 AM.

[Dangerous_Dave]

You probably should start by deleting your preference files and see if that helps.

See comment by Russell for instructions: http://gm4mac.yoyoga...view.php?id=880

Edited by Dangerous_Dave, 07 February 2012 - 06:54 AM.

[SecondReality]

Thank you very much!
I have deleted my preference-files and now everything works.
Thanks again!

[mykyl1966]

You probably should start by deleting your preference files and see if that helps.

See comment by Russell for instructions: http://gm4mac.yoyoga...view.php?id=880

That link goes nowhere now. Any words on what was actually there. As far as I am concerned I have cleared out everything game maker related and still have the stupid menu bar gone and preference files not saving.

Seems they have cleared all mac issues from the database. None are listed at all.

Mike

Edited by mykyl1966, 02 April 2012 - 05:02 PM.

[SecondReality]

You probably should start by deleting your preference files and see if that helps.

See comment by Russell for instructions: http://gm4mac.yoyoga...view.php?id=880

That link goes nowhere now. Any words on what was actually there. As far as I am concerned I have cleared out everything game maker related and still have the stupid menu bar gone and preference files not saving.

Seems they have cleared all mac issues from the database. None are listed at all.

Mike

Sorry, I only know that I had to do some commands in Terminal to delete the preferences.
But I don't remember which commands.
Maybe you can send an e-mail to yoyogames. It's possible that they've stored the issues somewhere...

EDIT: I think I found the commands in my command history that I've used to delete the preferences.
I'm not sure but maybe try these 3 commands in Terminal:
rm -rf ~/.config/Game\ Maker\ for\ Mac
rm -rf ~/.config/Game_Maker
rm -rf ~/.config/YoYo70

Edited by funnysoft, 05 April 2012 - 02:28 PM.

[Dangerous_Dave]

EDIT: I think I found the commands in my command history that I've used to delete the preferences.
I'm not sure but maybe try these 3 commands in Terminal:
rm -rf ~/.config/Game\ Maker\ for\ Mac
rm -rf ~/.config/Game_Maker
rm -rf ~/.config/YoYo70

Thanks for this! I've been trying to track it down for a few days now but was unsuccessful.

Checking the .config folder on my machine, those three folders are the only ones relating to GM, so they should do the trick.

[mykyl1966]

Sorry about the very late reply. The forum never sent me a notification of an answer although I had ticked email a notification. Thanks for the info. Got it working again.

Cheers

Mike

[Dangerous_Dave]

The forum never sent me a notification of an answer although I had ticked email a notification.

You've got to whitelist the email address, as they get directed straight to spam at the moment. The reason has been identified and it's being looked into as we speak.

[mykyl1966]

The forum never sent me a notification of an answer although I had ticked email a notification.

You've got to whitelist the email address, as they get directed straight to spam at the moment. The reason has been identified and it's being looked into as we speak.

I had checked my spam and there was no email. (I even checked that the correct email address was assigned to my account.)

Cheers

Mike

[Dangerous_Dave]

I had checked my spam and there was no email. (I even checked that the correct email address was assigned to my account.)

It turns out there's a few email providers blocking them completely. They've now looked into the issue and made some adjustments, so hopefully emails will be getting through again.